Cerulli, Enrico

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Cerulli, Enrico
Name (Arabic)
چرولى، انريكو
Other forms of name
چيرولى، انريكو
Date of birth
1898-02-18
Date of death
1988-09-19
Associated country
Ethiopia
Iran
Italy
Somalia
Field of activity
Customary law
Islam--Study and teaching
Manuscripts, Ethiopic
Occupation
Colonial administrators
Governors
Scholars
Ambassadors
Associated Language
ita
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 110017
Wikidata: Q3725683
Library of congress: n 50035918
Sources of Information
  • Etiopia occidentale, 1929?-1933.
  • Inventario dei manoscritti Cerulli etiopici, 2004:t.p. (Enrico Cerulli) p. 5 (b. in Naples, Feb. 18, 1898; d. in Rome, Sept. 19, 1988)
  • Wikipedia, Sep. 5, 2014(Enrico Cerulli; Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, a governor, and a diplomat; doctoral thesis, Univ. of Napoles Federico II, was on the traditional law of the Somali; studied Ethio-Semitic languages, Arabic, and Islamic studies; renowned for his studies on the Latin and Old French translation of the Arabic Kitab al-Miraj, on Muhammad's ascention into Heaven; governor of Shewa and later of Harar, provinces of Italian East Africa, between Jan. 1939 and June 1940; Italian ambassador to Iran 1950-1954; named President of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome)
  • LCN; note: 1898-